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Most DCC I have seen, mine included, will run non dcc units as #1 on the dcc controller. So when you get the DCC you can still run 1 or more units without dcc, the non dcc unit will all slow down and speed up at once (act as one). DCC is really quite easy, it just scares people because they hear horror stories or try to make it harder than it really is. I was the same until I tryed it. Now I wonder what we ever did without it. Kind of like computers! Only negatives, track need to be clean and cheap locomotives still run like cheap locomotives only worse. Some old cheap units will likely smoke the motors so don't run them. I smoked an old RS-3 AHM on it. But the same would happened with any pulse supply so should I blame DCC? Reverse loops are done with a reverse module. The parts (all I bought ie MRC) have instructions that show how to hook them up. Hardest part was converting the first Athearn's loco. The new Genisis and Atlas, etc. all have plugs now so they are easy. You can even use DCC for sound, foward revese lights, and turnout control. One could even hook up building lights and other animation to it. It's easy.
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